RACHELS-CARSON OF TODAY: August 2016

SPACESHIP EARTH

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent upon its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all."

ADLAI STEVENSON, 1964

Recent increased awareness of these global threats to life in the ocean is largely due to the combined efforts of two 'kaitiaki-moanas', or 'ocean guardians', Kauai-based marine biologist and underwater photographer Terry Lilley, and his research associate and diving buddy, Atlanta Georgia-based chemical engineer Stewart Simonson.

My On the Brink Radio interviews with them:

https://soundcloud.com/user-927384558/on-the-brink-radio-163-terry-lilley-marine-biologist-kauai-hawaii
https://soundcloud.com/user-323150707/on-the-brink-radio-162-stewart-simonson-1-biospheric- electrification-scenario-marine-die-offs

https://soundcloud.com/user-577460516/on-the-brink-radio-167-stewart-simonson-2-electromagnetic-marine-dangers

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